Cascadia in the News

Below are Articles, PDF's and Books relating to Cascadia and the Cascadia Movement. Entries are listed in chronological order. This includes articles not found online, but links provided when possible.

Small Homes, Big Climate Dividends for Cascadia - The Daily Score-Jul 18, 2018. During the early 20th century, city planners weren't thinking about the climate when they devised the homebuilding rules for Cascadia's cities. They cemented ...

Not your typical powwow. Cascadia Weekly-Jul 17, 2018 - Reviewed by Lisa Gresham. Wednesday, July 18, 2018. Tommy Orange did not grow up around books or aspire to be a writer. A recent graduate from the MFA ...

“Cascadia” Team Competes in Alternative World Cup - American Media Institute Newswire-Jun 21, 2018. “Cascadia” Team Competes in Alternative World Cup ... who helped found the team and is a director of the Cascadia Underground, an advocacy group.

Into the Heart of Cascadia - Powder Magazine-Feb 21, 2017 Photo by Nic Alegre. The lost boys and former circus freaks stand on Shuksan Arm, waiting for the light to clear. We're on the lip of Beast Ridge. The glaciated …

The Road to Cascadia - A Magazine of American Culture-Apr 13, 2017. They call it Cascadia—a land of plunging waterfalls and snowcapped mountains, a mythical kingdom of towering trees and raging rivers. Here in Seattle, capital ...

Catalonia to Cascadia. LA Progressive (press release) (blog)-Oct 4, 2017. Here in the Pacific Northwest we refer to it as Cascadia. We even have our own flag, the beautiful Douglas Fir. We envision ourselves as Washington, Oregon, …

Rethinking Tincture - The Portland Mercury-Nov 1, 2017. So I was skeptical but polite when I recently sat down with Dave Wolfe, lead chemist, co-owner, and co-founder (with his wife Frea) of Cascadia Herbals.

A collection for the ages. Cascadia Weekly-Nov 7, 2017. Reviewed by Tim McNulty. Wednesday, November 8, 2017. In a town known for its abundance of resident poets and writers, Port Townsend poet Finn Wilcox ...

2016

A Bioregional Declaration of Interdependence - Seattle Weekly-Nov 16, 2016. Letsinger's proposed new 501(c)4, Yes Cascadia, a political nonprofit separate from the charitable and cultural work of CascadiaNow, has not explicitly stated ...

Cascadia: The Other “Lost Continent” – Part I. Ancient Origins-Aug 25, 2016. Mount Shasta's Forgotten History & Legends, 2016.“Palouse Falls, Washington. Evidence of a prehistoric deluge can be seen throughout the Cascadia region.

And the Most Car-Sharing City in Cascadia Is… The Daily Score-May 10, 2016. Update 5/13/2016: A knowledgeable reader notes that Enterprise Carshare and U-Haul Carshare probably have another 20 vehicles scattered around Cascadia …

Five myths about the Pacific Rim - Sacramento Bee-Apr 29, 2016. Because of the 100 or more miles between most volcanoes and the largest faults, such as Cascadia, the shaking at the volcanoes is relatively weak.

Cascadia Art Museum - Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce-Nov 7, 2016. Cascadia Art Museum occupies half of what had been a 22,000-square-foot Safeway ... Over each gallery entrance is a plaster relief sculpture Cascadia created ...

How the West Coast Could Dump Trump - OZY-Nov 13, 2016 . Cascadia includes separate states, provinces and even countries, but proponents say it's connected by an acute sense of regionhood, as well as issues that ...

Cascadia Unite! Says Justin Trudeau and Bill Gates - KUOW News and Information-Sep 19, 2016. Bill Radke speaks with Todd Bishop, co-founder and editor of the technology news site GeekWire, about why some business and political leaders are working to ...

How the West Coast Could Dump Trump - OZY-Nov-13, 2016. Now, the movement has a new and powerful impetus, says Brandon Letsinger, founder of the Seattle-based Cascadia Now. Since the election, inquiries and ...

Personnel with Olympia-based Cascadia Research Cooperative have been playing an active role in monitoring whales along the outer coast in recent days.

Meet 'The Dougie' -- the coin, not the dance - News1130-Apr 29, 2015. The people pushing for a free and independent Cascadia are now minting ... the Cascadian flag on the front,” says Brandon Letsinger, founder of Cascadia Now!

Cascadia: A state of mind, a bioregion of beer - The Province-Sep 29, 2015. (A version of this article appeared in The Growler 1.3.) Cascadia. It's an evocative name. It conjures up images of dense evergreen forests, soaring snow-capped ...

Lummi Youth join the kayaktivists - Cascadia Weekly-Oct 27, 2015 - Story by Frank Hopper. Wednesday, October 28, 2015. The Lummi Youth Canoe Family will be traveling to Paris for the United Nations climate negotiations, Dec ...

Cascadia flag placed on roof of IOOF building - La Grande Observer-Nov 11, 2015 - The Cascadia Doug flag "is a symbol for the natural beauty and inspiration that the Pacific Northwest provides, and is a direct representation of the bioregion," ...

What Is Cascadia, Anyway? Huffington Post Canada-Mar 12, 2014. Cascadia is an independence movement and proposed country combining Washington and Oregon states as well as British Columbia, according to a ...

Burn, destroy, wreck, kill - SB Nation-March 26, 2014, by Matt Negrin. Soccer's Pig War produces spies and battle cries in the Pacific Northwest ... of the Pacific Northwest between the cities of Portland and Seattle.

Activists protest at Seneca Jones plant - Coos Bay World-Jul 8, 2014. Cordelia Finley, an activist with Cascadia Forest Defenders, said three of the group's members were arrested after attaching themselves to equipment at the ...

Dry Hill Enduro - Pinkbike.com-Aug 1, 2014 - Round 2 of the Cascadia Dirt Cup found its way to Dry Hill, just outside of the seaside town of Port Angeles, Washington. Dry Hill is home to the NW Cup ...

CDC Round 3: Rainier Enduro - Pinkbike.com-Aug 18, 2014 - The Rainier Enduro venue has been on the bucket list for the CDC organizers since the series inception. The Highway 410 corridor trails, just outside Mt. Rainier ...

The Washington State Flag Sucks - Seattle Weekly-Aug 26, 2014 - For some, Cascadia is ripe for secession from the U.S., as outlined in Ernest Callenbach's admirably goofy 1975 classic Ecotopia. But for Baretich, the flag and ...

CDC Round 4: Tiger Mountain Enduro - Pinkbike.com-Sep 25, 2014 - The highly anticipated and sold out 4th round of the Cascadia Dirt Cup headed to a sunny and dry Tiger Mountain. A welcome change from last year.

Open house for 'green' home - The Daily Courier-Oct 7, 2014. The Ethel Lane House is being showcased by the Thompson-Okanagan Collaborative of the Cascadia Green Building Council today at 11:30 a.m.. Registered …

Finale: Chuckanut Enduro - Pinkbike.com-Oct 24, 2014. Chuckanut Mountain and the Whatcom Mountain Bike Coalition(WMBC) played host for the second year in a row to the Cascadia Dirt Cup Series Finale.

Dictionary of must-try local beers - San Diego Reader-Oct 29, 2014. Mild by comparison to other San Diego black IPAs (or Cascadian dark ales as they are referred to in the Pacific Northwest), it provides a delicate enough ...

Americans for Independence — From America - NPR-Nov 15, 2014. Would-be nation Cascadia, which supporters call a "bioregion," would include Washington, Oregon, bits of other U.S. states and British Columbia in Canada.

Cascadia - by Dan Roberts, April 26th 2013. An article exploring Northwest Independence, Regional Identity and the Cascadia National Team.

Cascadia Calls - by Michael Quigg, April 26th 2013. A short poem in tribute to Cascadia, where beats the heart of North American soccer.

A 'Whom do you Hang with' Map of America - by Robert Krulwich, NPR.org, April 17th 2013. A detailed analysis of visualizations designed by tracking dollar bills to create a visualization of regional economies.

Cascadia's Bumpy Recovery - by Jon Talton, the Seattle Times, April 6th 2013. An article talking about the economic recovery in Washington, Oregon and British Columbia, with a nice PDF infographic of how powerful our joint economy would be today.

Buzzword of the Month: Cascadia - by Tom Gierasimczuk, BC Business Magazine, March 4th 2013. Article discussing about how Cascadia is the buzzword of the month. Documents many of the ways Cascadia has gotten in the news recently.

In the 18: Cascadia Pride - Kyler Parris, GoalWA.net, February 21st, 2013. A nice article documenting CAFFs process of application for applying to the NF-Board in Geneva for a Cascadian National Team.

Welcome to Cascadia - Rebecca Bolwitt, August 24th 2012. The Cascadia Now! social movement gets a great mention in the lead up to the Cascadia Cup match between the Vancouver WhiteCaps and Portland Timber Army.

Cascadia Rising! - Martin Patail, editor of the Portland Monthly, July edition 2012. Break out the fireworks for the northwest's independent state of mind, this in depth article covers the full range of Cascadia idealism and breadth of the Cascadia movement, as both a social and cultural idea.

History Makes Cascadia Cup Unique - by Dave Clark, The Sounders at Heart January 1st 2011. Nice article talking about a brief history of Cascadia MLS teams and the distinctiveness of the yearly Cascadia Cup.

Envisioning Cascadia: 33 Artists Envision a Homeland – Port Angeles Fine Arts Center showing from July 5th to November 9th of 2009. Work by 33 different Cascadian artists. Will work to try and track down more author info and artworks.

Is Cascadia’s Train Coming in? - by Knute Berger, the Crosscut May 19th 2009. High-speed rail between Seattle and Vancouver could be a catalyst for regional development, and identity.

(PDF) Cascadia Ecolopolis 2.0– by Ethan Seltzer, Evergreen State University 2006. Written over the period of several classes by many of its students. Huge project and very informative paper on many different Cascadian aspects.

What or where is Cascadia? – A nice descriptor, history and overview of the Cascadian bio-region. Originally posted by Alexander on the Republic of Cascadia website which can be found here. Date unknown (2004?)

Western Regionalism: Views on Cascadia - Phillips, James D. Canada -- United States Law Journal; 2004, Vol. 30, p333-339, 7p

The Bioregional Basis of Forest Certification: Why Cascadia? – by David Simpson, University of Idaho, October 7th 1998.

Vancouver and Cascadia – Robert Kaplan, The Atlantic Monthly Online, 1998. An excerpt of a three piece segment on different regions within the United States describing the authors unique experience within Cascadia.

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Achieving Sustainability in Cascadia: An Emerging Model of Urban Growth – by Alan Artibise, North American Cities and the Global Economy: Challenges and Opportunities, 1995 pp 221-250.

Cascadia: The New Binationalism of Western Canada and the U.S. Pacific Northwest - Schell and Hamer 1995 in Earle R. and Wirth J. Identities in North America: The Search for Community Palo Alto, CA Stanford University Press

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